The East Campus Discovery Days and Farmers Market is a free community event designed for people of all ages and backgrounds. We are excited to kick off our fifth season with live entertainment. Below are the acts participating on July 12th:
The Lightning Bugs
The Lightning Bugs are a popular jazz trio sure to light up your event with smooth vocal harmonies in the Mills Brothers tradition. The band’s name was inspired by the Mill’s pop music classic Glow Worm and the Bugs use it to start their shows. Their performance repertoire includes jazz, swing, western and popular standards from the 30s through the 60s, when music and lyrics had a meaningful innocence.
The Lightning Bugs came into being in 1987 when Reynold Peterson was asked to put together a concert performance for the Lincoln Association For Traditional Arts. Being a fan of the Mills and three-part vocal harmony, the singing drummer asked his talented friends guitarist/vocalist Steve Hanson and Jim Pipher on bass and vocals to help him make it happen. For well over thirty years, their concerts, club dates, radio, and television appearances have won them many friends and fans throughout the Great Plains. The band has released four studio recordings including: The Lightning Bugs, Bugology, Stretchin’ Out and Glow.
Take a hint from a line in The Bugs theme song: “They’ll jive your hive man sake’s alive, you’ll love them Lightning Bugs!”